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will last indefinitely. I do not as yet know 

 the life of the gourd bird-house, but it will 

 remain good without attention when exposed 

 to all of the weathers for many years. The 

 gourd which is on a tree for three or four 

 years often becomes covered with some of 

 the lichens or molds, which make it still 

 more like a natural object from the bird's 

 point of view, but which do not seem to 

 injure the very hard shell. 



Aside from the utility of gourds for bird- 

 houses, the plants themselves are stimulating 

 objects of beauty in the garden because of 



their vivacious enthusiasm of growth. The 

 flowers are among the most beautiful of all 

 garden flowers, although not commonly 

 classed in that group because their delicacy 

 is smothered by the valiant mass of great 

 leaves. A single gourd flower with its long 

 stem, cut in the early morning and placed in 

 a vase with some narrow leaf like that of iris 

 has decorative value of such high quality 

 that it evokes expressions of surprise from 

 flower-lovers who are visitors at my country 

 home in Stamford Connecticut. — Robert 



T. MOERIS. 



NE^V LIFE MEMBERS 



Enrolled from July 1 to November 1, 1922 



Abercrombie, David T. 

 Ames, John S. 

 Baring, Thomas 

 Barton, Mrs. F. O. 

 Bentley, Mrs. Cyrus 

 Blanchard, Annie K. 

 Bole, Ben P. 



Bradford, Mrs. Elizabeth F. 

 Bromley, Joseph H. 

 Bruce, Mary A. 

 Burrows, Mrs. W. F. 

 Chapman, Mrs. John Jay 

 Church, E. D. 

 Clapp, George H. 

 Cobourn, Louise H. 

 Converse, Mary E. 

 Coyle, Mrs. John E. 

 Crosby, G. N. 

 Dunham, Arthur Louis 

 Dunlap, D. A. 

 Dunn, Mrs. George B. 

 Eastman, Mrs. L. R. 

 Edwards, Elizabeth S. 

 Falconer, J. W. 

 Forbes, William S. 

 Fowler, Angela 

 Gates, Mrs. John 

 George, Mary J. 

 Goodwin, Mrs. H. M. 

 Gray, Matilda Geddings 

 Hamilton, Elizabeth S. 

 Hill, Dr. William P. 

 Hinchliff, Mrs. Wm. E. 

 Hunt, Ella M. 

 Hunt, Emily G. 

 Keep, Mrs. Chauncey 

 Laimbeer, R. H. 

 Lippincott, Mrs. M. M. 

 Lloyd, Mrs. John Uri 

 Loughran, Mrs. M. F. 

 Lowell, Mrs. A. Lawrence 

 Luchsinger, Mrs. F. B. 

 Lyman, Mabel 



Marrs, Mrs. Kingsmill 

 Marshall, Mrs. E. O. 

 Marshall, W. A. 

 Matheson, Mrs. W. J. 

 Mitchell, W. S. 



Montgomery, Mrs. Leila Y. P. 

 Moody, Mrs. Samuel 

 Moore, Katharine T. 

 Morris, Miss L. T. 

 Moses,Mrs. James 

 Mosman, P. A. 

 Peirson, Walter, Jr. 

 Proctor, William 

 Pyne, Mrs. M. Taylor 

 Randolph, Mrs. E. 

 Reed, Mrs. Geo. W. 

 Ripley, Miss J. T. 

 Robbins, Ida Elizabeth 

 See, Alonzo B. 

 Siedenburg, Mrs. R. Jr., 

 Spreckels, A. F. 

 Stearns, William S. 

 Stillman, Liska 

 Strader, Benjamin W. 

 Swartz, E. G. 

 Taber, Mary 

 Thomas, Landon A. 

 Torrance, Mrs. Francis J. 

 Tower, Florence E. 

 Tuttle, Jane 

 Tyler, Mrs. W. G. 

 Vandeneer, Eudora G. 

 Vanderbilt, Laura 

 Van Sinderen, Mrs. A. J. 

 Van Wagenen, H. W. 

 Van Wagenen, Mrs. H. W. 

 Van Wyck, Philip V. R. 

 Vickery, Mrs. H. F. 

 Wallace, Mrs. Lindsay H. 

 Wheatland, Mrs. Stephen G. 

 Wilcox, Mrs. Fred'k P. 

 Wood, Mrs. William M. 



